shagginess

Horror is from Lat. _horrere_, to bristle, and may be rendered 'shagginess' or 'ruggedness,' just as

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

Shag rugs are different than most other rugs in that their fiber loops are left intact to create their pile, and that's why they are so soft and have such "shagginess".

MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

Indeed, she's had that haircut since at least since 2009 — before Bieber released a single or understood his potential for shagginess.

Bieber Ringer Explains Her Uncanny Existence 2011

Reviewers of these two books grew increasingly impatient with their archness and shagginess and scale.

Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010

The Beatles have quite a few beasties named after them, the most pertinent being Greeffiella beatlei, a nematode worm identified by S. Lorenzen in 1969 — the worm's shagginess perhaps resembling a Beatle haircut.

Appellation spring Matthew Guerrieri 2007

The Beatles have quite a few beasties named after them, the most pertinent being Greeffiella beatlei, a nematode worm identified by S. Lorenzen in 1969 — the worm's shagginess perhaps resembling a Beatle haircut.

Archive 2007-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

The chieftain plucked at his beard, which was full and curly to the point of shagginess.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

And the velvet of the coat, brilliant with a milky sheen, had here and there a roughness, a scoring, a shagginess on its surface which made one think of the crumpled brightness of the carnations in the vase.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

His eyebrows were of a more than wonted shagginess, growing together at the bridge of his nose, so as to form a thick excrescence of hair that bore an unsettling resemblance to a member of that singularly repellent variety of arthropod commonly known as the centipede.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999